Learning to type and increasing your speed, camcorder skills, free training videos online, copyright issues for trainers, chocolate training, sign generators, showing cooking photos online, resumes online, Excel beginners tutorial

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Learning to type quickly is on everyone's list. There's the traditional software like Mavis Beacon, and now a lot of online services as well. A good review of what's available here at Lifehacker and the speed test I like is at TypingTest. Keyboard skills, especially for men, sorts out the digital natives (< 30) from the digital immigrants ( >30).

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Camcorder skills need to be on most trainers skill list, for making content to post on the web or classroom instruction. Here's a quick guide to get started.

Do a search under "chef" at Google Video and see the 'You're the chef' videos available - all for free!

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Who owns the material you develop and other use? What are the implications of © ? A good discussion from a teacher's perspective here at the Generation Z blog. We can all plead guilty for occasionally borrowing a little too freely...

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Blogging for trainers and teachers. Huh? Yes, it's time to explore... Dean Shareski makes a good point:

If we as educators have never entered into a global conversation, it's not likely we'll ever create that opportunity for our students. But as we all know...kids are already having them so when will we?

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Just discovered Tourism & Hospitality NetworkEd in my own backyard, as it were. Also a keen blogger at NetworkLearning.

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Mmmmmmmm chocolate...

A great resource for students at BlendedChocolate.com - 3 lessons on where it comes from, tempering and working with moulds, and perfecting skills. Self-paced, with lots of pictures.

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Want to create a sign like this to make a point? Here's the Restaurant Sign Generator and a resource for every possible sign generator!. Enuf!

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Great example of using Bubbleshare to show assessing a student chef's work. Animation adds interest. Here's the chef talking about what he's doing. Thanks again to the THED group - I'm finding lots of great material to share...

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Cheeky training alert. Nice to escape from serious instructional methods...see how to create a video podcast, as demonstrated by these lovely French Maids.

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Our trainees eventually become job hunters. Emurse (it means 'resume', but improved) is an elegant way to put your resume online (even multiple versions) and track how many times it's been read. Email the link with your job application. A good article here about its features.

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Every manager and chef needs to have Excel under their belt - it's a basic tool these days. Here's a very good, free online spreadsheet tutorial, starting right from the beginning.

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The TED site has more than a dozen flash movies of inspiring presenters in action. Great for honing your stage skills...

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